10 Signs You Are an Imperfect Parent

Are you an imperfect parent? I know I am, but realizing this has taken me 10+ years. I’m imperfect, my parenting style is not perfect. But the good news is, we are surviving and we are happy. What more can you ask for?

Being a digital mom, who posts about real life and my kids – IRL people often ask me about my parenting and kids. I’ve stopped taking things personally, because I’ve come to the realization that how you run your family and house is up to you. You have to do what’s best for you. I had a neighbor who once told me, everyone is given 100% – how they choose to divide that 100% is up to them. This is so true. Good luck being perfect with your 100%, it isn’t going to happen.

Let’s give a lookie and see if i’m the only imperfect parent, perhaps you are too.

Signs That You Are an Imperfect Parent

Your Walls Have Been Colored

Oh no! What is wrong with you for letting your kid color on your walls??

Your Kids Have Left The House Without Shoes

We may have made it to pre-school the other day without shoes on a kid. No judging.

You Have Forgotten Diapers

I can’t count the times that we have forgotten a diaper bag or didn’t have diapers in the car and have had to make an emergency stop at a drug store…

Your Car is Filthy

Hey, once a month my car looks kid-free (when I take it for it’s monthly clean-out!) You know it’s bad when your car is filthy and you are asking for a car detail for your birthday.

You Let Your Kid Sleep In His Clothes

Maybe it’s just me, but are PJ’s a requirement? Sure, when we can we change them. Maybe it’s the fact that pajamas = more laundry and this mom is soooo done with laundry.

You Have Fed Your Kids McDonalds

I SWORE I would NEVER feed my kids McDonalds. While Mickey D’s is NOT on our top 100 list, it’s quick and easy and the kids will gladly eat it if need be.

Your Kids Clothes Don’t Match

Our toddlers are in the dress yourself phase and I am totally okay with that, I think. Sure, I will change them if it doesn’t mean a knock down drag out fight. These are perfections that I have to release.

Your Couch Also Serves as a Make Shift Trampoline/Fort

I swear, someday when we can go a week without a spill in the living room and buy a new couch, the pillows WILL be attached! Loose pillows make for great forts and trampolines.

Going to Church Feels Like a Vacation

While I love me sometime with Jesus, I do admit the 60 minute service also serves as a mommy refuel. Church feels like a vacation knowing that my kids are in good care with someone else, while I can just have an hour alone with my husband and God.

You Have Gone to Work With a Goo’ed Shirt

Do I even have to go into how many times I have walked in to a meeting with goo from a child on my shirt? Typically this is the should area, and it’s either food or snot. You really don’t know and typically don’t have time to care.

Are You an Imperfect Parent?

It’s okay if you are, I promise. If more of us embrace this – the world will be a happier place knowing that we are all in good company.

Over on Babble today, I’m talking about my toddlers in: My Toddlers Aren’t Perfect – and Neither are Your’s. The post was sparked by questions asking me if my kids really wrote on my walls and if my kids really run around naked. Because the good Lord knows that my kids are the first and only kids to do this, ha!

SO What if you aren’t perfect? Join the club. The Imperfect Parent Club.

Molly Thornberg is a creator. She made 4 awesome kids, too-many-to-count blogs and disasters anytime she tries to DIY. She is an introverted extrovert, believer in grace, all-around geek and total type-B parent. Molly and her family circus reside in Dallas, TX

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